Using your keyboard instead of your mouse

Often websites are designed without thinking about the needs of non-mouse users, for example people with RSI who can only use an ergonomic keyboard to surf the web. This section explains the ways you can navigate a web page with just the keyboard and explains how special shortcuts known as 'access keys' can make keyboard navigation much easier.

• Tabbing around a page, filling in forms and using drop down boxes using the keyboard
• Using accesskey shortcuts to navigate BBC online pages and My Web My Way website

Most people think that the Mac has to be operated with the mouse and that, if you cannot use a mouse, you cannot use a Mac.

This is not the case may features of a Mac can be operated from the keyboard,and doing so can often be faster and easier than using the mouse.

Please note the Mac OS X has far better keyboard support many of the programmes and menus in easier version of the Mac operating system such as OS 8 and 9 do not have any keyboard equivalents for mouse actions but fortunately there is a way of using your keyboard to control the mouse.

The following list the most common keyboard shortcuts used on the Mac:

• Common keyboard shortcuts in OS 8 and 9
• Common keyboard shortcuts in OS X